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In this paper, we present a linear distinguishing attack on the stream cipher Shannon. Our distinguisher can distinguish the output keystream of Shannon from 2107 keystream words while using an array of 232 counters. The distinguisher makes use of a multidimensional linear transformation instead of a one-dimensional transformation, which is traditionally used in linear distinguishing attacks. This gives a clear improvement to the keystream requirement: we need approximately 25 times less keystream than when a one-dimensional transform is used.
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Hakala, R.M., Nyberg, K. (2008). Linear Distinguishing Attack on Shannon. In: Mu, Y., Susilo, W., Seberry, J. (eds) Information Security and Privacy. ACISP 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5107. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70500-0_22
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